Student Researchers

Did You Know?

Roughly 3% of the country’s oil and natural gas reserves, 15% of coal reserves and between 37-55% of uranium reserves are located on Indigenous land. These resources and their associated land have in the past been taken away from Indigenous people once they were discovered.

Jesse Vega-Perkins

Research Assistant

Status:

Former

Education

M.S. Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan (expected 2022)
B.S. Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, 2017

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Research Interests

consumption-based accounting, life cycle assessment, environmental justice, climate change, industrial ecology